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Our brothers, having endured brief pain, for the sake of ever-flowing life have died for the covenant of God, while you, by God's judgement, will have to pay the just penalty for your arrogance. (2 Maccabees 7, 36)
'To the excellent Jews, to the citizens, Antiochus, king and commander-in-chief, sends hearty greetings, wishing them all health and prosperity. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
and pulled down the altars erected by the foreigners in the market place, as well as the shrines. (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
They purified the sanctuary and built another altar; then, striking fire from flints and using this fire, they offered the first sacrifice for two years, burning incense, lighting the lamps and setting out the loaves. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
Prostrating themselves on the terrace before the altar, they begged him to support them and to show himself the enemy of their enemies, the adversary of their adversaries, as the Law clearly states. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
After these prayers, they armed themselves and advanced a fair distance from the city, halting when they were close to the enemy. (2 Maccabees 10, 27)
'If you are well, that is as we would wish; we ourselves are in good health. (2 Maccabees 11, 28)
after this he took a collection from them individually, amounting to nearly two thousand drachmas, and sent it to Jerusalem to have a sacrifice for sin offered, an action altogether fine and noble, prompted by his belief in the resurrection. (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
Deserved justice, this; since he had committed many sins against the altar, the fire and ashes of which were holy, it was in ashes that he met his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, supplied the enemy with secret information; the man was identified, arrested, and dealt with. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
A certain Alcimus, a former high priest, had wilfully incurred defilement at the time of the insurrection; realising that whichever way he turned there was no security for him, nor any further access to the holy altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
he stretched out his right hand towards the Temple and swore this oath, 'If you do not hand Judas over to me as prisoner, I shall rase this dwelling of God to the ground, I shall demolish the altar, and on this very spot I shall erect a splendid temple to Dionysus.' (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
